AWS Professional Solution Architect Certification Tips

Having sat and passed all the AWS Associate certification exams and working with AWS technologies for over a year now, I thought it was about time I gave the professional level exams a go. Not only does this give you additional credentials that look great on your résumé, it's a great way to learn a lot more about services you may have never used before in your day-to-day job.

I passed the Professional Solution Architect Certification exam yesterday and haven't seen many blog posts or study guides regarding it (one is coming at https://acloud.guru/ soon!), so I thought I'd write a bit of a guide for those of you who may want to attempt it.

My thoughts about the exam are as follows:

If you are doing this for the first time it will be very long and exhausting. My second attempt seemed to go a lot quicker.

It's a massive coverage of almost every service AWS has, I don't feel I had a lot of any particular kind of technology in my exam, it was so wide open to what you may get asked.

It was actually a good exam and if you pass this I believe you deserve the credentials. The first time I failed I was so close (61%) and was so disheartened I failed by 2-3 questions, but you really can't bluff your way through it